2. Extract the downloaded Hadoop distribution, and export/set the following variables in: ~/.bashrc

export HADOOP_INSTALL=/path/to/your/installation

PATH=$PATH:$HADOOP_INSTALL/bin:$HADOOP_INSTALL/sbin

3. Set JAVA_HOME in file: $HADOOP_INSTALL/conf/hadoop-env.sh

Note: In Hadoop 2.x, this file is located under: $HADOOP_INSTALL/etc/hadoop/

4. Check that Hadoop is properly installed by opening up a new shell and executing:

hadoop version

Installation modes

Hadoop can be run in one of the 3 installation modes:

1.Standalone (local) mode: This is used for development only. There are no daemons running, everything is in a single JVM.

2.Pseudo-Distributed mode: Hadoop daemons run on the local machine, simulating a cluster in a single box.

3.Distributed mode: Hadoop daemons run on a cluster of machines.

Configuration for each installation mode

Standalone mode

By default, Hadoop is configured to run on Standalone mode, so no further action is required.

Pseudo-Distributed mode

1.Component Configuration

Each Hadoop component (core, hdfs, mapreduce) is configured using its own XML file (under the /conf directory for Hadoop 1.x or /etc/hadoop/ for Hadoop 2).
In earlier versions of Hadoop, all configuration was done in a single file hadoop-site.xml,now it's split into 3 different files:

For pseudo-distribution mode, configure the following:

File: core-site.xml:

<configuration>

<property>

<name>fs.default.name</name>

<value>hdfs://localhost:9000</value>

</property>

</configuration>

File: hdfs-site.xml:<configuration>

<property>

<name>dfs.replication</name>

<value>1</value>

</property>

<property>

<name>dfs.name.dir</name>

<value>/home/yourname/dfs/name</value>

<final>true</final>

</property>

<property>

<name>dfs.data.dir</name>

<value>/home/yourname/dfs/data</value>

<final>true</final>

</property>

</configuration>

In a pseudo-distributed installation, the entire cluster runs on a single machine, therefore we set the block replication factor to 1 otherwise Hadoop will issue warning messages since it can't replicate data to other physical datanodes.

When you format (create) an HDFS filesystem, it creates its files in the path specified at property dfs.name.dir and dfs.data.dir. Subsequently all the filesystem data will be stored in these directories. By default, these properties point to the /tmp directory, so its is stronglyadvised to change these as all data will be lost if the machine is rebooted.

Set these properties as "final" to make sure they don't get overridden by other configuration files or command line options.

File: mapred-site.xml:

<configuration>

<property>

<name>mapred.job.tracker</name>

<value>localhost:9001</value>

</property>

<property>

<name>mapred.system.dir</name>

<value>/home/yourname/mapred/system</value>

<final>true</final>

</property>

</configuration>

The"mapred.job.tracker"property specifies the address of the jobtracker. It's by default set to "local" which means it will use Hadoop's local job runner to run MapReduce jobs inside a single JVM (development mode)In Hadoop 2.0 (YARN) the equivalent property is called "mapreduce.framework.name"

If you're using Hadoop 2 (YARN), then set the following additional properties in yarn-site.xml

<property>

<name>mapreduce.framework.name</name>

<value>yarn</value>

</property>

<property>

<name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services</name>

<value>mapreduce.shuffle</value>

</property> <property>

<name>yarn.nodemanager.aux-services.mapreduce.shuffle.class</name>

<value>org.apache.hadoop.mapred.ShuffleHandler</value>

</property>

2.Configuring SSH

Hadoop makes use of SSH to start its daemons, so you must have SSH installed in your localhost, also, be able to SSH into your host using password-less login (without a password).

Open up a terminal and execute: ssh localhost

if you get a "Connection refused" error, it's because you don't have SSH installed, so install it by running:

sudo apt-get install ssh

Try again ssh localhost and make sure you don't need to type in a password to connect, if you do, then execute the following to enable password-less login:

ssh-keygen -t dsa -P '' -f ~/.ssh/id_dsa

cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

3.Formatting the HDFS filesystem

You need to format a brand new HDFS installation before you can use it. Formatting HDFS is easy, just type the following:

hadoop namenode -format

4.Start/Stop Hadoop Daemons:

> Hadoop 1.0:

Start daemons:

NameNode:start-dfs.sh

Jobtracker:start-mapred.sh

Note: If you get a "JAVA_HOME is not set" error, then make sure you set JAVA_HOME in file: hadoop-env.sh

Check that you have started both, NameNode and Jobtracker daemons by accessing their respective web interfaces:

About Me

Born in Brazil, Tulio Domingos is a senior Software Engineer who spent most of his professional career in the UK. Tulio currently works in Barcelona, Spain. He has particular interest in open source technologies and distributed computing.